PSI Blog 20191030
Reality an illusion?
Among the stupidest ideas in regressive physics is the
claim of UC Irvine prof Donald Hoffman that was highlighted by New Scientist
recently: https://go.glennborchardt.com/Reality.
Of course, this is nothing new, just plain old immaterialism—the blurb by
Chopra is the kiss of death.
If you wish to
read the book this came from, here it is: Hoffman, Donald D., 2019, The case
against reality: Why evolution hid the truth from our eyes: New York, Norton,
272 p.
Apparently, the
well-worn central thesis of this mess is that perception is never perfect, and therefore
we can not trust it completely. Well, that is how the Infinite Universe is. The
materialist view is that reality is quite simple. Our perception is usually
good enough to tell the difference between a wall and a doorway. Neither is an “illusion.”
It they were, we would have been dead long ago. Granted, there are an infinite
number of complications both to the wall and the doorway. Univironmental
Determinism (e.g., evolution) has taught us to focus only on the important
features of our world. That does not make either the important or the
unimportant characteristics any less “material.” Shame on
New Scientist for publishing such claptrap.